Hi Paul-- hope it's ok that i'm responding to the public BTS as well. i've removed your trace below.
On Tue 2016-10-04 14:48:59 -0400, Paul Rogé wrote: > I'm sending you another log file (I sent Daniel one earlier). The > numbers that seem like they might be sensitive are replaced by Xs. And I > am not posting it to the bug report system in case I missed something. > This is an attempt to export my secret key using: > > $ gpg --export-secret-keys 40E25F025E23DE01 > ~/Desktop/private.key > gpg: key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: error receiving > key from agent: Operation cancelled - skipped > gpg: key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: error receiving > key from agent: Operation cancelled - skipped > gpg: WARNING: nothing exported how are you running this? you said earlier this is rxvt-unicode, but inside of what kind of graphical environment? Can do you know how gpg-agent was started? Let's stick with the --decrypt use case instead of the --export-secret-keys use case for now. How is gpg-agent started? What happens if you kill gpg-agent and then try the decryption command again immediately? gpgconf --kill gpg-agent gpg --decrypt FILENAME regards, --dkg